Our IT Solutions for Sustainability

Most of the IT equipment we acquire results in an element of recycling where the equipment has no life and therefore recycling is the only option. That’s where we come in. Minimising the environmental impact of IT disposal is at the core of what we do. Learn more about how we're practising sustainable IT asset disposal throughout our business.

0% to landfill

We’ve set a business goal of sending zero waste to landfill and we’re fully committed to doing anything we can to achieve that goal as soon as we can. That’s why we’re continually investing in streamlining our processes and technology so we can reuse and recycle as much waste as we possibly can.

We’re using solar power

Another business goal we have set ourselves is to become wholly reliant on solar power energy by the end of 2025. To help us achieve that goal, we’ve installed over 380 sq metres of solar panels on the roof of our processing facility based in Pershore.

We support wildlife initiatives

We’re proud to be a Corporate Partner with the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust. In 2021, we provided funding for the Trust to plant heritage trees in a semi-natural ancient woodland. Most recently we helped to plant over 800 trees with the Trust. Read more about this story on our blog.

Additionally, we’ve supplied tools and equipment to support the ongoing work of the Trust in maintaining their 80 sites and over 3,000 acres of protected natural landscape throughout Worcestershire.

We’re a WEEE compliant recycler

We’re a Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliant recycler and to ensure we’re fully compliant, we’re regularly reviewed and inspected by the Environment Agency. The WEEE Directive aims to reduce the amount of electronic waste being disposed of via landfill or incineration to help limit pollution.

We’re environmentally compliant

We’re always continually aiming to improve our sustainable IT solutions and environmental performance, so much so we’re compliant with numerous environmental policies, including the ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System. Visit our certifications page to view and download all of our policies.

We’ll reuse and recycle wherever possible

We’ll do whatever we can to ensure we reuse and recycle IT assets wherever we can, because this means less waste sent to landfill. Any assets that we can’t reuse, recycle, repair, or have a limited life expectancy are normally:

Stripped of their parts and we’ll remove any processors, motherboards, memory cards and any other housed cards
Any hard disk drives are scanned, removed and shredded in-house at our facility to 25mm

We send shredded stock to an ATF

Our shredded stock is bagged, labelled and weighed before it’s sent to an Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF).

Here, the stock is further processed at a recycling plant and shredded to an even finer level before being sorted into various components including aluminium, steel and copper. The recycling plant will recover any precious metals such as silver, gold, titanium and palladium.

We created a Green Agenda to help guide our IT solutions for sustainability for the future of our organisation. The aim is to minimise our impact on the environment and ensure we run our operations as close to carbon neutral as possible. You can read our full Green Agenda below - this is currently being reviewed, please bear with us.

Other Certifications

Upper Tier Waste Carrier/Dealer/Broker Registration CBDU224867

T11 Exemption from the Environment Agency
Site Ref: NC2/061891/2021, allowing us to repair or refurbish Waste

Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) HGV Operators Licence ODO260988.

See What Our Customers Say

We’ve worked with countless businesses in a wide range of industries to dispose of their unwanted IT assets responsibly and securely. Here’s what they had to say about us:

“Having worked with OCM for some years, I can confidently state that their approach to customer service is exemplary. Our account manager is always highly responsive, very friendly, and consistently helpful, even if some of our requests are troublesome! OCM are a pleasure to partner with, I would not hesitate to recommend them.”

IT Service Delivery Director

“We use OCM as our recycling partner not just because they are good at recycling our unwanted IT equipment or because they follow good practices and standards to ensure we comply with the regulations. For us we use OCM over other recycling companies because of their commitment to raising money for local and national charities. Since our relationship with OCM began many years ago, we have raised tens of thousands of pounds. Our account manager is a pleasure to work with and he has personally helped to raise thousands for a local charity. As a company and as a collection of people, I would highly recommend working with them.”

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